You will be beaten if you fall behind.

The decadent feudal system cannot defeat the advanced capitalist system.

We should learn from the advanced western technologies and systems, and should be open rather than conservative.

Step 2 introduce

The First Opium War Britain usually called the First Sino-British War or "Trade War", which was the beginning of China's modern history.

After the "closed door", the Qing Dynasty gradually fell behind the world trend, but in foreign trade, China has always been in a trade surplus position. In order to reverse the trade deficit with China, Britain began to smuggle drugs and opium to China for huge profits.

3. Influence

The failure of the Opium War and the signing of a series of unequal treaties fundamentally changed the social nature of China:

Politically, the Manchu government gradually became a tool for the great powers to rule China. With China's territorial, territorial sea, judicial, customs and trade sovereignty being seriously damaged, China has gradually become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country from an independent country.

Economically, with the dumping of products in China and the acquisition of agricultural and sideline products such as silk and tea in China, China has gradually been involved in the world market; The dominant self-sufficient natural economy has been strongly impacted, and China has increasingly become a part of the world capitalist market. This has objectively promoted the development of China's commodity economy and contributed to the rise of China's national capitalism. However, foreign capitalism further intensified class contradictions and led to the outbreak of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement to a certain extent.

In terms of ideology and culture, after the Opium War, some intellectuals began to abandon old ideas, pay attention to the world, explore new knowledge, and seek ways to strengthen the country against aggression, which sprouted a new trend of thought of learning from the West and had a certain impact on feudal thought. In terms of social contradictions, with the change of social nature, the main contradiction in China society has changed from the contradiction between the landlord class and the peasant class to the contradiction between foreign capitalism and the Chinese nation, feudalism and the masses of the people. The revolutionary task of China people has changed from anti-feudalism to both anti-feudalism and anti-aggression. Thus, China's transition from a feudal society to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society was the beginning of China's modern history and China's old democratic revolution.